The cover of our book "Understanding Windows CardSpace"

The cover of our book "Understanding Windows CardSpace"

Here there’s the cover sketch for our “Understanding Windows CardSpace” book. As you may have noticed, the Independent Technology Guides series has the tradition of putting an animal on the cover. While all the books of the series have gorgeous cover pictures (I especially like the lion on David’s “Understanding .NET“), I don’t…

Understanding WS-Federation

While WS-Trust provides the primitives for playing the token issuing game, WS-Federation builds on those capabilities and enables to describe the behavior of complex scenarios. Microsoft and IBM recently published a joint whitepaper, titled Understanding WS-Federation, which gives exhaustive descriptions of the specification in action on various notable situations. Namely, the paper really…